# Hong Kong Baptist University **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/hong-kong-baptist-university/ **Website:** https://www.hkbu.edu.hk/ **APIs profiled:** 34 Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is a publicly funded research university in Hong Kong SAR, ranked #253 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable footprint centers on research information: the HKBU Scholars research portal is powered by Elsevier Pure, which exposes a documented Pure Web Service API (OpenAPI 3) for research outputs, persons, organisations, and related metadata. HKBU also operates a mobile-app backend and various library and digital scholarship platforms, though most of these are gated or undocumented for external developers and require institutional affiliation. There is no central institutional developer portal or organization-wide GitHub org; public code is published by individual research groups. ## Kin Score — 36.7 / 100 (thin) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.7). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 59.3 | | Contract Quality | 67.8 | | Governance | 9.8 | | Contract Governance | 9.8 | | Operational Transparency | 26.3 | | Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 | | Commercial Clarity | 28.9 | | Access Clarity | 28.9 | Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 35.9 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | no | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (34) - **HKBU Mobile App Backend (gated)** — Backend host serving the official HKBU mobile application (mapp-api.hkbu.edu.hk). The host resolves and serves app support content such as the app privacy notice, but there is n... - **Hong Kong Baptist University activity API** — The activity API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 38 operation(s) for activity. - **Hong Kong Baptist University application API** — The application API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 36 operation(s) for application. - **Hong Kong Baptist University authorCollaboration API** — The authorCollaboration API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 9 operation(s) for authorcollaboration. - **Hong Kong Baptist University award API** — The award API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 36 operation(s) for award. - **Hong Kong Baptist University classificationScheme API** — The classificationScheme API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 7 operation(s) for classificationscheme. - **Hong Kong Baptist University concept API** — The concept API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 4 operation(s) for concept. - **Hong Kong Baptist University course API** — The course API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 27 operation(s) for course. - **Hong Kong Baptist University dataSet API** — The dataSet API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 29 operation(s) for dataset. - **Hong Kong Baptist University education API** — The education API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 14 operation(s) for education. - **Hong Kong Baptist University equipment API** — The equipment API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 26 operation(s) for equipment. - **Hong Kong Baptist University ethicalReview API** — The ethicalReview API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 22 operation(s) for ethicalreview. - **Hong Kong Baptist University event API** — The event API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 21 operation(s) for event. - **Hong Kong Baptist University externalOrganization API** — The externalOrganization API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 29 operation(s) for externalorganization. - **Hong Kong Baptist University externalPerson API** — The externalPerson API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 22 operation(s) for externalperson. - **Hong Kong Baptist University fundingOpportunity API** — The fundingOpportunity API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 21 operation(s) for fundingopportunity. - **Hong Kong Baptist University impact API** — The impact API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 31 operation(s) for impact. - **Hong Kong Baptist University journal API** — The journal API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 22 operation(s) for journal. - **Hong Kong Baptist University keywordGroupConfiguration API** — The keywordGroupConfiguration API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 7 operation(s) for keywordgroupconfiguration. - **Hong Kong Baptist University milestone API** — The milestone API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 24 operation(s) for milestone. - **Hong Kong Baptist University organization API** — The organization API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 33 operation(s) for organization. - **Hong Kong Baptist University person API** — The person API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 57 operation(s) for person. - **Hong Kong Baptist University pressMedia API** — The pressMedia API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 24 operation(s) for pressmedia. - **Hong Kong Baptist University prize API** — The prize API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 28 operation(s) for prize. - **Hong Kong Baptist University project API** — The project API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 33 operation(s) for project. - **Hong Kong Baptist University publisher API** — The publisher API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 18 operation(s) for publisher. - **Hong Kong Baptist University researchOutput API** — The researchOutput API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 66 operation(s) for researchoutput. - **Hong Kong Baptist University role API** — The role API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 2 operation(s) for role. - **Hong Kong Baptist University semester API** — The semester API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 8 operation(s) for semester. - **Hong Kong Baptist University specialization API** — The specialization API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 8 operation(s) for specialization. - **Hong Kong Baptist University studentProject API** — The studentProject API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 26 operation(s) for studentproject. - **Hong Kong Baptist University studentThesis API** — The studentThesis API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 26 operation(s) for studentthesis. - **Hong Kong Baptist University thesaurus API** — The thesaurus API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 5 operation(s) for thesaurus. - **Hong Kong Baptist University user API** — The user API from Hong Kong Baptist University — 7 operation(s) for user. ## Agentic access (1) - **Hong Kong Baptist University Agentic Access** — 898 operations · 258 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop ## Security (2) - **Hong Kong Baptist University Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme - **Hong Kong Baptist University Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS ## Plans (1) - **Hong Kong Baptist University Plans Pricing** ## Tags Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Hong Kong, Pure, Research Information --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/hong-kong-baptist-university/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.